Think theres a very interesting day fascinating. And i just want to thank well, the lawyers because theyve been really working hard well, if the goal today was to please the client, well, consider them. Pleased. Welcome to a special day. Mishnah lara codes live on day 18 of Donald Trumps criminal trial. A trial is that a lot of numbers to keep up with, right. I mean, 34, the number of felony counts, again, and trump for falsifying business records, 130,000. The amount of dollars Stormy Daniels was actually paid to keep quiet, but the number that might be sticking with the jury tonight is 96 than seconds of a critical october 2016 phone call it is now in question. On monday, cohen testified that he made that october call to trumps bodyguard man by the name of Keith Schiller to try to talk to trump. Whole point of that call to tell trump that he was planning to pay off Stormy Daniels now from tuesdays transcript here was the question, why did you need to speak with mr. Trump at that poin
Answering these questions n oan once he gets a new ag, lo and behold, he ll suddenly give these answers to the questions and won t answer the questions about obstruction of justice and i gather probably won t answer other things as well. one of the other things the president said over the weekend, you know, about whitaker is he didn t know his views on the case before appointing him. we just know that s not true from reporting. we know the only reason he was at the justice department in the first place is the president saw him speaking out on television against the mueller probe. had him interview with a job with the white house. he didn t get that but they pushed him over to the department of justice to be the white house s eyes and ears. and he sat in the oval office and nodded along gleefully when the president would attack the mueller probe for over a yoor up until the time he got the acting ag job. the fix has been in for a while. doesn t mean he ll reach in and end the mueller pr
my dealings with my sources in the reporting that has become at issue were practiced in accordance with the same sources and methods and information as i try to bring as a working reporter to all of my sources and all of my stories. as for why james rosen was targeted by the justice department in the first place, he said this morning he doesn t think the fact he worked for fox was at any point overlooked. shepard? shepard: peter, rosen says there were legal and ethical considerations about how much he could say today but he tells us he does fully intend to say a lot more some day. well, president obama says we need to act on climate change before its too late. republicans say his plan will do little to cost americans their jobs: among president obama s new proposal first ever limits on the amount of pollution that power plants can pump into the air.